Life / Any "wet" plans for Śmigus-dyngus? [51]


Not many of those. 1% of the population. You're maybe confusing them with the middle class (szlachta), around 15% of the population.

No reason they shouldn't pour water or any other non-toxic substance. After all, in Czech they got the young ladies with sticks on Easter Monday.

Love / Polish guy canceled 3rd date on me, is he uninterested or am I reading too much into it [32]


For sure.

It's a hazard of online 'dating'.

Love / Polish guy canceled 3rd date on me, is he uninterested or am I reading too much into it [32]


There isn't one.

He doesn't sound interested. It was just sex from the internet.

Law / Weed laws in Poland [25]


It's freely available in shops in Poland.

Life / Adopting a cat in Poland? [13]


Cat lenders?


We don't use dollars in Europe. We have several other better currencies.

Off-Topic / Happy Easter, everyone! :) [76]

MiniEuropa used to have frozen French lamb.

They called it lamb but from the look of it the animal in question must have been the tallest girl in the sixth form and definitely on the skinny side.

Life / Adopting a cat in Poland? [13]


That's the point of them.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]

Parmo, not Parma (autocorrect).

Nice but not kind to anyone's waistline or cholesterol levels.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]


Made from wheat I think. Very old recipe.


Me too.


They can't say "thee" and "tha" (a very South Yorkshire thing; I grew up saying it) with the "th". They pronounce it a bit like dee and dah.

There's a ton of regional dishes, some half forgotten. Some nice ones from east anglia and Lincolnshire. The northern ones tend to be a bit less user friendly since they're from poorer or geographically wilder places. Catholic Pie from Lancashire is nice. I like Bavarian Buns which you only ever see in Bradford.

The North East is a bit special about traditional food. Singing Hinnies, pease pudding (Northumberland hummus), the best kippers in the world and since WW2, there's Parma, an Italian/American/Middlesbrough fusion food.

About food from the south, I don't know much since I've not really been there much apart from London. A friend from Kent says there are local specialties where he's from.

What about the South West? Is there anything there that you don't see elsewhere?

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]


I got some Henderson's Relish a while back. I'd not really had it despite it being a Sheffield thing and fairly local to me. They call it Hendo's there and Deedahs (Sheffield people) around the world take it with them or buy it online. It's been made for about 150 years about 100 yards from the original factory (just behind the big flats you see in The Full Monty).

It's a bit like an insipid Worcester Sauce without the kick. A bit like the very bland stuff they have in Germany and sell as Worcester Sauce. A sort of relation to Maggi.

It's good for vegans and I'd guess it would do as a substitute for a light soy sauce in cooking. Probably food with delicate Chinese recipes.


About Stargazy Pie, nobody outside Cornwall (where it was pretty well forgotten too) had even heard of it until about a decade ago when a theme park in China started selling it.

I like Dock Pudding (a Halifax specialty) and Herb Pudding (sort of Westmorland/south Lake District).

The latter is easy. Pearl barley, herbs (nettles are traditional, onion or leek, egg yolk and sometimes cream, baked in a mould.

Mushroom ketchup is nice. Rare in the shops and best home made.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


Very nice if you cook them properly.

There are a lot in the U.K.; they tend to be sold fresh near the coast and of course there's a lot of coast.

They're sometimes eaten raw, just marinaded (if they're very fresh) though I'm not fond of that.

Any decent recipe for Coquilles Saint Jaques will do.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]


And not many tomatoes. More flavouring, dye and e numbers.


Eaten many, have you?

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 8 [1504]


Very good


Sounds fun


Your ideas are improving

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [279]


I've seen that in shops there. Good that it's a local one.

Life / Adopting a cat in Poland? [13]


Vets are cheap compare to wWstern Europe. You don't need a pussy passport. Vaccinations are cheap and there's no cat licence.

If you want to adopt from a shelter, you'll need a PESEL.

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1858]


This looks like the way we'll have to go, especially since the US is embarrassing itself and likely to be a basket case for four years.


BAe and Rolls Royce engines are doing very well as are some of the producers across the sea. It's a golden opportunity for European defence manufacturers.


He doesn't, however he's getting old, has killed 300,000 of his country's young men and he's not making progress with his three day special operation.

It will escalate of course sooner or later however his combined opponents are far far stronger than t*SSia.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]


That's actually a good idea.

Off-Topic / Music Thread [232]


She lives in Cumbria now; has a CBE. She's got a new group that only perform tours before Christmas. Unusual music. Well worth looking out on Yourube.


I preferred cooler music than depressive boomer prog rock like Genesis.

Right now, I'm listening to Miles Davies. The Bītches Brew album. I'd forgotten how good it was.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 8 [1504]


Only in terms of height.


Always clean shaven.

And the only photos of me online are group photos without identification.

As I say, don't trust Deepak. Other people here can judge what he's like from his posts.

I wonder what happened to him.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]


Jellied eels are sold in about two places in London. Stargaze pie appears more in photographs than on tables. For some reason the Chinese are obsessed with it.

I've never eaten either but would try the pie.


There used to be a restaurant in the Starówka in Warsaw, a holdover from the PRL era that used to serve pancakes with decorative swirls of it on.

In some Polish supermarkets there are twenty kinds, each vying with each other for the crown of repulsiveness.

Mind you, the only faddiness I have about food is avoiding raw tomatoes.

I quite like HP though with the right thing like a bacon buttie and used to like Hammond's Yorkshire Relish when they were still making it. A bit like HP but more bitter.

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [197]


Popular in WW2 in the U.K.

We used to grow it back in the 70s/80s.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]


All ketchup.


Most is varied, healthy and delicious, influenced by all corners of the globe (except for Eastern Europe) and a delight to eat.

No preserved pig entrails, decomposing cabbage or mysterious tubes.


More gruesome.

I have a good friend who works in one of the largest ketchup factories in PL. part of his job is scraping the thousands of flies from the top of the open vats.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]


Ketchup in general.

It's muck.


We all have; it's an additive-filled race to the bottom.

Off-Topic / Music Thread [232]


I like these. A blasst from the past though they had a sort of revival in popularity when I was of the age to know people who liked them.

Do you like Maddie Pryor?

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1858]


That's something that in your country and in mine that we don't have to even think about.

Our health services may sometimes be creaking a bit, there continual arguments about transport infrastructure etc however when we complain, it's a case of complaining that the Rolls Royce is too slow.

For all their oil and gas, for all their huge land empire from the Baltic to the Pacific, they have a kleptocracy with rotten schooling primitive hospitals, very poor sanitation, villages with no running water and leaders who live in vast palaces with gold toilets, oligarchs with super yachts and of course, as always, Swiss bank accounts.

I'll take the decadent democratic west over that any time. I can see why Ukrainians want that too.

Off-Topic / Music Thread [232]


They always used to be something that unhappy teenage boys liked.

And they listened to Phil Collins again 20 years later while divorcing.

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1858]

An EMP isn't worse than a nuclear holocaust however I suspect that some countries are woefully underprepared.

They can happen naturally and sooner or later one will.


Quality of life.

Some of the orcs who entered Ukraine had never seen a house with a toilet, never used a washing machine and had no idea what a dishwasher was for.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 8 [1504]


I don't have any photographs taken since three of four years before covid that have appeared anywhere online. And that one was wearing a hard hat.

Don't trust Deepak....


You're confusing me with your chum Joker. He keeps posting yours....

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 8 [1504]

It doesn't work Jim, so quit being a prannock.

As for hair (remember what it was like to have?) I've got the George Clooney look. I don't have the greying gene. Although grey looks distinguished, mine is at best salt and pepper.

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1858]


Quite.

Britain got ours when the economy was extremely tight anyway.

And now, there's no need for a development stage.